2024

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 16, 2024
Via its recent ruling on

The 50th Chief Justice of India, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, has demitted the office on controversial notes. Any objective and fair assessment of his tenure entails, perforce, to divide his term preceding his appointment as Chief Justice or after that. By the same token, the judgments rendered by him, and their scrutiny could be classified in accordance with the subject matters. As the Chief Justice of India has immense administrative power, apart from his judicial power, Justice (…)

November 5, 2024
Within one and a half years, Karnataka is into the election season thrice, the assembly elections in May 2023, the Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024 and the upcoming by-elections slated for 13th November. The three by-elections are caused in Channapatna as a result of H D Kumaraswamy vacating his seat consequent to his winning the Mandya Lok Sabha election, in Shiggao following Basavaraj Bommai

Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024. This Harvard-returned jurist

November 12, 2024
There are indications of Modi-led NDA Govt at the Centre being shaken with one of its supporters, Andhara Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu and his TDP opposing the JPC report on Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 being submitted to the Parliament’s Winter session beginning on November 15.
It is expected that the controversial JPC report prepared under the chairmanship of BJP M P Jagdambika Pal is likely to be submitted to Parliament creating a situation against the (…)

In the late nineteenth and early 20th century when Urdu poetry was at its zenith there was a heated debate among the reigning Urdu poets from the Lucknow school as against the poets of say Western India or Hyderabad Deccan on the metre and rhyme as against the content of the poem composed by a poet if he or she did not belong to the Lucknow school.
The Lucknow school for instance looked down upon even a great poet like Iqbal citing the same metre and rhyme shortcomings in their perception (…)

The narrative presented by the mainstream media almost all over the world of Donald Trump

The strange but ironical similarity in votes cast in United States

The American Elections of 2020 were a sigh of relief for the nation

14 November 2024
The haze in and around the capital city of India, New Delhi, is getting from bad to worse. Throttling lives, as the respiratory system is affected; choking and with that killing the vulnerable. Correct me if I